presidential stage to show people he is getting the booster, urging others to get vaccinated if they have not been vaccinated so far and taking some questions on what we started this show about. right? that megadeadline coming up for members of congress to avert a government shutdown, so suspend or raise the u.s. debt ceiling and to get done some of this legislation that is critical to president biden s agenda i want to bring back in nbc s shannon, who is with us outside the white house. also joining us is the director of infectious disease and research policy at the university of minnesota. thank you both for joining us. i want to get to shannon in a second on what we heard from the president on the sort of congressional back and forth he s saying he s got meetings tonight. he s got meetings tomorrow interestingly, he seemed to fudge some of the timeline or at least suggest that the timeline is actually on a longer lead than members of congress and house leadership have suggested. but